Among the deceased Ukrainian peacekeepers in Iraq was also a Volyn native, the commander of the 72nd separate mechanized battalion - Lieutenant Colonel Oleh Matizhev. Oleh Viktorovych was born and grew up in Kovel. There he finished school and entered the Khmelnytskyi Artillery School.

14 people died over the weekend due to storms and hurricane-force winds in northern Europe. Many cities in the Baltic countries are flooded. \n \nLatvian authorities declared an energy crisis when it became clear that 60 percent of citizens were left without electricity due to the natural disaster.

The death toll from the strongest earthquake in the last 40 years and the tsunami it triggered in twelve countries of Asia and Africa, which occurred on Saturday, has exceeded 76,000 people. Almost a third of the dead are children. \n \nThe total number of victims of the giant waves may reach 100,000 people.

His body was found with a gunshot wound to the head on December 27 in the summer house of a country home in the settlement of Bortnychi, near Kyiv.

Transport Minister Heorhiy Kirpa was found dead with fatal gunshot wounds at his dacha in Bortnychi, reports Channel 5.\n\nAnchor Roman Skrypin emphasized that this information is being verified and clarified.

According to data for the first half of Monday, the number of victims of the earthquake and the devastating tsunami that resulted from it in Sri Lanka reached 11,000 people, in India - 5,600, in Indonesia - 4,500, in Thailand - about a thousand.

In Volyn, criminal cases are beginning to be opened against high-ranking officials who violated election legislation and exceeded their official powers.

Employees of the Lutsk municipal squad together with employees of the Lutsk Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in Volyn conducted inspections of non-ferrous metal collection points located on the territory of the regional center.

In Volyn last week, more than ten suicides occurred. However, the most tragic was the 21-year-old resident of Novovolynsk who took his own life. On December 19, Mykola D. celebrated both his name day and his birthday. Around 9 p.m. he came home and asked his mother for vodka.

In the mining town of Novovolynsk, an 84-year-old grandmother and her 24-year-old granddaughter died from food poisoning. They were taken to the infectious diseases ward of the city hospital at around six in the evening. At first, the women complained of general weakness, stomach pain, and diarrhea.